The Grammys were held in New York this year but the awards were still celebrated in L.A. The biggest, best and most important shindig of Grammy night in L.A. was courtesy of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, who teamed with Live Nation for his first-ever Grammy viewing party at RED Studios in Hollywood.

What made it the biggest and best should be obvious. It was a party thrown by Tyler, who has forgotten more about rock star living than most musicians would know if they lived to be a thousand. When you talk top rock star Tyler is right there on any list. And this was a remarkably well-done and festive celebration culminating in a Tyler performance, backed by the Loving Mary band, for 500 people who got to witness the iconic frontman cover Janie Joplin’s “Piece Of My Heart,” as well as rock Aerosmith classics such as “Sweet Emotion,” “Dream On,” and “Walk This Way,” with an appearance by Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, and team with Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt for the band’s heartfelt “More Than Words.”

But what it made the most important was the event was a benefit for Janie’s Fund, an organization created by Tyler in partnership with Youth Villages to help young girls who are victims of abuse.

As impressive as it is to see Tyler sing, and he proved on “Dream On” he can still belt it out with the best, it is far more inspiring to hear him talk about helping young girls. The father of three daughters, as his friend Alice Cooper pointed out, Tyler spoke passionately and eloquently about why he started Janie’s Fund.

“The whole reason I’m in this is because I know what happens to a girl if she’s sexually abused at 14, sent out on the street to sell crack at 15, her mother has her hook at 16, she’s bringing johns home at 17 because she looks older,” he said before the event. “At 18 she’s left off at a bus station in Oklahoma, doesn’t know where she is or what’s going on. She’s broken. Now, she, for the rest of her life, has a problem with sex, has a problem with men coming on to her. There are men in America that murder people, they get caught with a gun in their hand they get seven f**king years! She gets 70 years. Seventy years of her life has been ruined and that f**king kills me. That kills me.”

Tyler walked the carpet with Youth Villages CEO Patrick Lawler and Janie’s Fund Chief Development Officer Richard Shaw. Lawler revealed that for the past few years, since Tyler aligned with Youth Villages, he has met with abused girls for “two or three hours” a night on show days.

“He shares his life,” Lawler said. “I always say he shares a piece of him to save a piece of our girls. And when you’re sharing your own stories, girls who have been through some of the similar trauma, they listen to you. Steven also, through the years of his own personal reflection and therapy, he understands these young women and knows how to talk to them.”

Tyler and the organizers, as well as host Melissa Peterman, did a masterful job all night of making the event a celebration without losing sight of the cause. For instance, before he did interviews on the carpet he was joined by a live band and delivered a show-stopping performance of Pharrell’s “Happy” for the press and fans gathered early.

During commercial breaks on the very long Grammy telecast, they would bring out speakers, musical performances like a killer drum circle, Peterman would entertain. But again the event never steered from being about raising money and awareness for Janie’s Fund and the girls it helps.

As much fun as the live auction, which featured Sharon Stone paying $116,000 for a Christopher Makos print of Andy Warhol kissing John Lennon, was it absolutely paled in comparison to the devastatingly powerful speech made by Darilyn Espinoza, a 19-year-old sex abuse survivor helped by Youth Villages, who told the crowd how she was abused for the first time at four. As she delivered her moving and inspiring story, which found her graduating high school with a 3.8 GPA and now studying graphic design, the entire room sat in rapt attention, nearly moved to tears as she was as she finished her tale.

Then Tyler came out and rocked the house as only as he can. That’s what made this event so powerful, that mix was there all night, leading to a night that was as empowering as it was damn fun.